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    How To Configure An IP Address in Solaris 11

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    Solaris 11 uses profile-based networking configuration with two modes - automatic DHCP or manual configuration. To manually configure IP addresses, set the network configuration profile to DefaultFixed, check the link status of the interface using dladm, create the interface using ipadm, and assign the static IP address. The IP address can be removed by deleting the interface with ipadm.

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    How To Configure An IP Address in Solaris 11

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    Solaris 11 uses profile-based networking configuration with two modes - automatic DHCP or manual configuration. To manually configure IP addresses, set the network configuration profile to DefaultFixed, check the link status of the interface using dladm, create the interface using ipadm, and assign the static IP address. The IP address can be removed by deleting the interface with ipadm.

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    Solaris 11 uses profile-based networking configuration with two modes - automatic DHCP or manual configuration. To manually configure IP addresses, set the network configuration profile to DefaultFixed, check the link status of the interface using dladm, create the interface using ipadm, and assign the static IP address. The IP address can be removed by deleting the interface with ipadm.

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    How to configure an IP address in Solaris 11

    Oracle made a huge changes in the networking stack with Solaris 11. The use of many
    network related files have been deprecated in Solaris 11. Below are some of the files
    which are not used in Solaris 11 for persistent network configuration :

    /etc/defaultdomain
    /etc/dhcp.*
    /etc/hostname.*
    /etc/hostname.ip*.tun*
    /etc/nodename
    /etc/nsswitch.conf

    Network Configuration Profile


    Solaris 11 uses profile-based network configuration. It has 2 configuration modes :
    1. Automatic – Uses DHCP to obtain network configuration (IP address, router and
    DNS) from any of the connected ethernet interfaces. Do not support hot swapping of
    interfaces and IPMP.
    2. Manual (DefaultFixed NCP) – interfaces needs to be manually configured using
    dladm and ipadm commands. Also called as DefaultFixed NCP. Supports hot
    swapping of interfaces and IPMP.

    Configuring the IP address


    Step 1 : Set the NCP
    We would set the NCP to DefaultFixed profile in order to configure the IP address
    manually.
    To check the current NCP setting:

    # netadm list
    TYPE PROFILE STATE
    ncp Automatic disabled
    ncp DefaultFixed online
    loc Automatic offline
    loc NoNet offline
    loc DefaultFixed online

    As seen in the output above, the NCP is set to DefaultFixed. In case it is not set, use
    netadm command to set it to DefaultFixed :

    # netadm enable -p ncp DefaultFixed


    Step 2 : Check the link status
    The command “dladm show-dev” does not work in Solaris 11. The command to check
    the link status in Solaris 11 is :

    # dladm show-phys
    LINK MEDIA STATE SPEED DUPLEX DEVICE
    net0 Ethernet up 1000 full e1000g0

    Now if you see, there is a device alias name net0 for e1000g0. Starting Solaris 11, all
    the network ports would be identified by an alias in a generic format of net#.

    Step 3 : Create a new interface


    The ipadm command creates the new interface to be configured :

    # ipadm create-ip net0

    Check the newly created interface :

    # ipadm show-if
    IFNAME CLASS STATE ACTIVE OVER
    lo0 loopback ok yes ---
    net0 ip down no ---

    Step 4 : Creating IP address

    # ipadm create-addr –T static –a local=192.168.1.10/24 net0/geeklab


    -T specifies either static, dhcp or addrconf (for IPv6) types of addresses.
    The string geeklab can be any random string used to identify the interface.

    To check the interface status of the interface :

    # ipadm show-if
    IFNAME CLASS STATE ACTIVE OVER
    lo0 loopback ok yes --
    net0 ip ok yes --

    To check the configured IP address :

    # ipadm show-addr
    ADDROBJ TYPE STATE ADDR
    lo0/v4 static ok 127.0.0.1/8
    net0/geeklab static ok 192.168.1.20/24
    lo0/v6 static ok ::1/128

    Unplumb/delete the interface


    In Solaris 11, If we want to unplumb the interface, we have to delete it. Also, even in
    case you want to change the IP address of the interface, you have to delete it first and
    then re-create it to assign the IP address it.

    # ipadm delete-ip net0

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